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American Book Award

The American Book Award was established in 1978 by the Before Columbus Foundation

Before Columbus Foundation

The Before Columbus Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 1976 by Ishmael Reed, Victor Hern?ndez Cruz, Shawn Wong and Rudolfo Anaya to be "a multi-ethnic organizing dedicated to promoting a pan-cultural view of America," especially through the promotion of multicultural writers....
. It seeks to recognize outstanding literary achievement by contemporary American authors

American literature

American literature refers to written or literature produced in the area of the United States and Colonial America. For more specific discussions of poetry and theater, see Poetry of the United States and Theater in the United States....
, without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre. This should not be confused with the National Book Award

National Book Award

The National Book Awards are among the most eminent literary prizes in the United States. Started in 1950, the awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the prior year, as well as lifetime achievement awards including the "Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters" and the "Literarian Award"....
s which operated under the same nomenclature, American Book Award, between 1980 and 1986 when both organizations gave out different awards under the same name.

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The American Book Award was established in 1978 by the Before Columbus Foundation

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1980 – Douglas Woolf
Douglas Woolf

Douglas Woolf was an American author of short stories, novels and book reviews.Woolf studied at Harvard University from 1939 until 1942. He also studied at the University of New Mexico, and the University of Arizona.....
for Future preconditional: A collection
1980 – Edward Dorn for Hello, La Jolla
1980 – Jayne Cortez
Jayne Cortez

Jayne Cortez was born in Arizona, grew up in California, and currently lives in New York City and Dakar, Senegal. She is the author of ten books of poems and performer of her poetry with music on nine recordings....
for Mouth on Paper
1980 – Leslie Marmon Silko
Leslie Marmon Silko

Leslie Marmon Silko is a Native Americans in the United States writer of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, and one of the key figures in the second wave of what Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance....
for Ceremony
1980 – Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge is a contemporary poet. Winner of two American Book Awards, her work is often associated with the Language School, the poetry of the New York School, phenomenology, and visual art....
for Random Possession
1980 – Milton Murayama
Milton Murayama

Milton Murayama is an United States Nisei novelist and playwright. His first novel, All I Asking for Is My Body is considered a classic novel of the experiences of Japanese Americans in Hawaii before and during World War II....
for All I Asking for Is My Body
1980 – Quincy Troupe
Quincy Troupe

Quincy Thomas Troupe, Jr., born July 22, 1939, in St Louis , Missouri, is a poet, editing , journalist, and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla, California....
for Snake Back Solos
1980 – Rudolfo Anaya
Rudolfo Anaya

Rudolfo Anaya is a Mexican American author....
for Tortuga: A Novel
1981 – Alta
Alta

Alta or ALTA may refer to:...
for Shameless Hussy
1981 – Alan Chong Lau for Songs for Jadina
1981 – Bienvenido N. Santos for Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories
1981 – Helen Adam
Helen Adam

Helen Adam was an American poet, collagist and photographer who was an active participant in The San Francisco Renaissance, a literary movement contemporaneous to the Beat Generation that occurred in San Francisco during the 1950s and 1960s....
for Turn Again to Me & Other Poems
1981 – Lionel Mitchell for Traveling Light
1981 – Miguel Algarín
Miguel Algarín

Miguel Algar?n , is a Puerto Rico poet, writer, co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and retired Rutgers University professor of English language....
for On Call
1981 – Nicholasa Mohr
Nicholasa Mohr

Nicholasa Mohr is one of the best known Nuyorican writers. Her works tell of growing up in the Puerto Rican communities of the Bronx and Spanish Harlem and of the difficulties Puerto Rican women face in the United States....
for Felita
1981 – Peter Blue Cloud for Back Then Tomorrow
1981 – Robert Kelly
Robert Kelly (poet)

Robert Kelly is an Poetry of the United States associated with the deep image group....
for The Time of Voice: Poems 1994-1996
1981 – Rose Drachler for The Choice
1981 – Susan Howe
Susan Howe

Susan Howe is an United States poetry and critic who has been closely associated with the Language poets, among others. Her work has often been classified as Postmodern, and it expands traditional notions of genre ....
for The Liberties
1981 – Toni Cade Bambara
Toni Cade Bambara

Toni Cade Bambara was an United States author, social activism, and college professor....
for The Salt Eaters
1982 – Al Young
Al Young

Al Young is an United States poet, novelist, essayist and screenwriter. On May 15, 2005 he was named Poet Laureate of California by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger....
for Bodies and Soul
1982 – Duane Niatum for Songs for the Harvester of Dreams: Poems
1982 – E. L. Mayo for Collected Poems E L Mayo
1982 – Frank Chin
Frank Chin

Frank Chin is an United States author and playwright....
for Chickencoop Chinaman and the Year of the Dragon
1982 – Hilton Obenzinger for This Passover or the next, I will never be in Jerusalem
1982 – Him Mark Lai
Him Mark Lai

Him Mark Lai is an United States historian. He is known as the ?Dean of Chinese American History? by his academic peers, despite the fact that he is professionally trained as a mechanical engineer with no advanced training in the academic field of History....
, Genny Lim, Judy Yung
Judy Yung

Judy Yung is professor emerita in American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She specializes in oral history, women's history, and Chinese American and Asian American history....
for Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940
1982 – Jerome Rothenberg
Jerome Rothenberg

Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally known Poetry of the United States poet, translator and anthologist who is noted for his work in ethnopoetics and poetry performance....
for Pre-Faces and Other Writings
1982 – Joyce Carol Thomas
Joyce Carol Thomas

Joyce Carol Thomas is an African-American playwright, author and illustrator of more than 50 children's books. She was born in Ponca City, Oklahoma and currently lives in Berkeley, California....
for Marked by Fire
1982 – Leroy Quintana for Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets
1982 – Lorna Dee Cervantes
Lorna Dee Cervantes

Lorna Dee Cervantes is an award-winning Chicana-Native Americans in the United States poet who is considered one of the major Chicana poets of the past 40 years....
for Emplumada
1982 – Ronald Phillip Tanaka for The Shino Suite: Japanese-American Poetry
1982 – Russell Banks
Russell Banks

Russell Banks is an United States of America writer of fiction and poetry....
for Book of Jamaica
1982 – Tato Laviera
Tato Laviera

Tato Laviera is a Nuyorican poet, was born in Puerto Rico but moved to New York in 1960.Laviera's poetry addresses language , cultural identity, race, and memory, particularly as it affects the transculturation lives of Puerto Ricans living in the USA....
for Enclave
1983 – Barbara Christian
Barbara Christian

Barbara Christian was an author and professor of African-American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Among several books, and over 100 published articles, Christian was most well known for the 1980 study Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition....
for Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition, 1892-1976
1983 – Cecilia Liang for Chinese Folk Poetry
1983 – Evangelina Vigil for Thirty: An Seen a Lot
1983 – Harriet Rohmer for Legend of Food Mountain: LA Montana Del Alimento
1983 – James D. Houston for Californians: Searching for the Golden State
1983 – Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn for Pet food & tropical apparitions
1983 – John A. Williams for Click Song: A Novel
1983 – Joy Kogawa
Joy Kogawa

Joy Nozomi Kogawa, Order of dickcunts is a Canada poet and novelist of Japanese descent. Born Joy Nozomi Nakayama in Vancouver, she was sent to internment camps in the Slocan, British Columbia and Coaldale, Alberta, Alberta during World War II....
for Obasan
1983 – Judy Grahn
Judy Grahn

Judy Rae Grahn is an United States poet. She has written many lesbian / feminist works....
for The Queen of Wands: Poetry
1983 – Nash Candelaria
Nash Candelaria

Nash Candelaria is a Mexican American novelist. He is known for a tetralogy of novels about the Rafa family. He has been called the "historical novelist of the Hispanic people of New Mexico."...
for Not by the Sword
1983 – Peter Guralnick
Peter Guralnick

Peter Guralnick is an United States Music critics, writer on music, and historian of US American popular music, who is also active as an author and screenwriter....
for Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
1983 – Sean O Tuama
Seán Ó Tuama

Se?n ? Tuama was an Irish poet, playwright and academic. Raised in Cork and educated at the North Monastery school and University College Cork, ? Tuama first came to prominence in 1950 with his anthology of modern Irish language poetry titled Nuabh?arsa?ocht 1939-1949....
for An Duanaire Sixteen Hundred to Nineteen Hundred: Poems of the Dispossessed
1984 – Cecil Brown
Cecil Brown

Cecil Brown was the author of the book Suez to Singapore, which describes the sinking of HMS Repulse in December 1941. He also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6410 Hollywood Blvd....
for Days Without Weather
1984 – Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder is an American poet , essayist, lecturer, and environmentalism . Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His work, in his various roles, reflects an immersion in both Buddhism spirituality and nature....
for Axe Handles: Poems
1984 – Howard Schwartz
Howard Schwartz (writer and editor)

Howard Schwartz is a widely regarded folklorist, author, poet, and editor of dozens of books. He has won the international Koret Jewish Book Award, for the book Before You Were Born, and won the 2005 National Jewish Book Award for Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism....
, Mark Podwal
Mark Podwal

Mark Podwal is an artist, author and physician. He may be best known for his drawings on The New York Times OP-ED page. In addition, he is the author and illustrator of books for children as well as for adults....
for The Captive Soul of the Messiah: New Tales About Reb Nachman
1984 – Imamu Amiri Baraka for Anthology of African American Women: Confirmation Men
1984 – Jesús Colón
Jesús Colón

Jes?s Col?n born in Cayey, Puerto Rico is a Puerto Rico writer known as the Father of the Nuyorican Movement....
for A Puerto Rican in New York, and Other Sketches
1984 – Joseph Bruchac
Joseph Bruchac

Joseph Bruchac III is a writer of books relating often to Indigenous peoples of the Americas lives and myths. He has published works of poetry, short stories,....
for Breaking Silence: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian-American Poets
1984 – Maurice Kenny for The Mama Poems
1984 – Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge is a contemporary poet. Winner of two American Book Awards, her work is often associated with the Language School, the poetry of the New York School, phenomenology, and visual art....
for The heat bird
1984 – Miné Okubo
Miné Okubo

Min? Okubo , a pioneering Nisei woman, artist and writer, created approximately 2000 drawings and sketches of her experiences while confined along with approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans in Japanese American internment following the Attack on Pearl Harbor....
for Citizen 13660
1984 – Paule Marshall
Paule Marshall

Paule Marshall is an United States author. She was born Valenza Pauline Burke in Brooklyn to Barbados parents and educated at Brooklyn College and Hunter College ....
for Praisesong for the Widow
1984 – Ruthanne Lum McCunn, You-shan Tang, Ellen Lai-shan Yeung for Pie-Biter
1984 – Thomas McGrath
Thomas McGrath (poet)

Thomas McGrath was an American poet. McGrath grew up on a farm in Ransom County, North Dakota. He earned a B.A. from the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, but had to defer his study abroad at Oxford University until after World War II....
for Echoes inside the labyrinth
1984 – Venkatesh Kulkarni for Naked in Deccan
1984 – William J. Kennedy for O Albany!
1985 – Angela Jackson for Solo in the Box Car Third Floor E
1985 – Arnold Genthe
Arnold Genthe

Arnold Genthe was a photographer, best known for his photos of San Francisco's Chinatown, San Francisco, the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and his portraits of noted persons, from politicians and socialites to literary figures and entertainment celebrities....
, John Kuo Wei Tchen for Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown
1985 – Colleen J. McElroy for Queen of the Ebony Isles
1985 – Gary Soto
Gary Soto

Gary Soto is an Mexican-United States author and poet....
for Living Up The Street
1985 – Peter Irons for Justice at War
1985 – Keiho Soga, Taisanboku Mori, Sojin Takei, Muin Pzaki for Poets Behind Barbed Wire
1985 – Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich

Karen Louise Erdrich, known as Louise Erdrich, is a Native Americans in the United States author of novels, poetry, and Children's literature....
for Love Medicine: A Novel
1985 – Maureen Owen for Amelia Earhart
1985 – May Sarton for At Seventy: A Journal
1985 – Robert Edward Duncan for Ground Work: Before the War
1985 – Ron Jones for Say Ray
1985 – Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros is a Chicano writer best known for her acclaimed first novel The House on Mango Street and her subsequent short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories ....
for The House on Mango Street
1985 – Sonia Sanchez
Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez is an African American poet most often associated with the Black Arts Movement. Born Wilsonia Benita Driver in Birmingham, Alabama on September 9, 1934, she has authored over a dozen books of poetry, as well as plays and children's books....
for Homegirls and Handgrenades
1985 – William Oandasan for Round Valley Songs
1986 – Anna Lee Walters
Anna Lee Walters

Anna Lee Walters is a Pawnee/Otoe tribe-Missouri tribe author from Oklahoma. She works at the Din? College, where she directs the college press....
for The Sun Is Not Merciful: Short Stories
1986 – Cherrie Moraga
Cherríe Moraga

Cherr?e L. Moraga is a Chicana writer, feminist activist, poet, essayist, and playwright....
, Gloria Anzaldua for This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
1986 – Helen Barolini
Helen Barolini

Helen Barolini is an American author, born in Syracuse, New York. She married Antonio Barolini, an Italian poet, and lives mainly in Italy.She has been included in The Best American Series for 1991 and 1993....
for The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writing by Italian American Women
1986 – Jeff Hannusch for I Hear You Knockin : The Sound of New Orleans Rhythm and Blues
1986 – Linda Hogan
Linda Hogan (writer)

Linda Hogan is a Native Americans in the United States poet, storyteller, academic, playwright, novelist, environmentalist and writer of short stories....
for Seeing Through the Sun
1986 – Miguel Algarin
Miguel Algarín

Miguel Algar?n , is a Puerto Rico poet, writer, co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and retired Rutgers University professor of English language....
for Time's Now/Ya Es Tiempo
1986 – Natasha Borovsky for A Daughter of the Nobility
1986 – Raymond Federman
Raymond Federman

Raymond Federman is a France?United States novelist and academic, known also for poetry, essays, translations, and criticism. He held positions at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York from 1973 to 1999, where he is now Distinguished Emeritus Professor....
for Smiles on Washington Square: A Love Story of Sorts
1986 – Susan Howe
Susan Howe

Susan Howe is an United States poetry and critic who has been closely associated with the Language poets, among others. Her work has often been classified as Postmodern, and it expands traditional notions of genre ....
for My Emily Dickinson
1986 – Terence Winch for Irish Musicians/American Friends
1986 – Toshio Mori
Toshio Mori

Toshio Mori was born in Oakland, California and grew up in San Leandro. During World War II, he and his family were interned at Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah, where Mori edited the journal Trek for a year....
for Yokohama, California
1987 – Ai
Ai (poet)

Florence Anthony is an American poet who legally changed her name to Ai....
for SIN
1987 – Ana Castillo
Ana Castillo

Ana Castillo is a Mexican-American Chicano novelist, poet, short story writer, and essayist....
for The Mixquiahuala Letters
1987 – Cyn Zarco for Circumnavigations
1987 – Daniel McGuire for Portrait of Little Boy in darkness
1987 – Dorothy Bryant
Dorothy Bryant

Dorothy Bryant is an influential United States novelist, playwright, essayist and feminist writer.Bryant is known for her mystical, feminist and fantastic novels and Play that traverse the space between the real world and her character's inner psyche or soul....
for Confessions of Madame Psyche: Memoirs and Letters of Mei-Li Murrow
1987 – Etheridge Knight
Etheridge Knight

Etheridge Knight was an African-American poet who became a notable poet in 1968 with his debut volume, Poems from Prison. The book recalls in verse his eight-year-long sentence after Etheridge was arrested for robbery in 1960....
for The Essential Etheridge Knight
1987 – Gary Giddins
Gary Giddins

Gary Giddins critic, author, director, best known for his longtime work with The Village Voice.Born in Brooklyn, and raised on Long Island, Giddins graduated from Grinnell College, Iowa, in 1970....
for Celebrating Bird: The Triumph Of Charlie Parker
1987 – Harvey Pekar
Harvey Pekar

Harvey Lawrence Pekar is an Underground comics writer best known for his autobiographical American Splendor series.In 2003, the series inspired a critically acclaimed film adaptation of the American Splendor ....
for The New American Splendor Anthology: From Off the Streets of Cleveland
1987 – James Welch for Fools Crow
Fools Crow

Fools Crow is a novel written by author James Welch . Set in Montana shortly after the American Civil War, this novel tells of Fools Crow, a young Blackfoot Indian on the verge of manhood, and his tribe, known as the Lone Eaters....
1987 – John Wieners
John Wieners

John Wieners was an American Lyric poetry poet....
for Selected Poems: 1958-1984
1987 – Juan Felipe Herrera
Juan Felipe Herrera

Juan Felipe Herrera was born December 27, 1948, in Fowler, California. The only son of Lucha Quintana and Felipe Emilio Herrera, the three were campesinos living from crop to crop, and from tractor to trailer to tents on the roads of the San Joaqu?n Valley, Southern California and the Salinas Valley....
for Face Games
1987 – Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum for liberazione della donna: feminism in Italy
1987 – Michael Mayo for Practicing Angels: A Contemporary Anthology of San Francisco Bay Area Poetry
1987 – Septima Poinsette Clark
Septima Poinsette Clark

Septima Poinsette Clark was an United States educator and civil rights activist. Her work for equal access to education and civil rights for African Americans several decades before the rise of national awareness of racial inequality has led her to be known as the "Queen mother" or "Grandmother of the Civil Rights Movement" in the United Sta...
, Cynthia Stokes Brown for Ready from Within: A First Person Narrative
1987 – Terry McMillan
Terry McMillan

Terry McMillan is an African-American author. Her interest in books comes from working at a library when she was sixteen. She received her Bachelor of Arts in journalism in 1986 at University of California, Berkeley....
for Mama
1988 – Allison Blakely for Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought
1988 – Charles Olson
Charles Olson

Charles Olson , was an important 2nd generation United States poetry modernist poetry poet who was a crucial link between earlier figures like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the The New American Poetry 1945-1960, a rubric which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain poets, the Beat generation poets, and the San Francis...
for The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the Maximus Poems
1988 – Daisy Bates
Daisy Bates (civil rights activist)

Daisy Lee Gatson Bates was an United States civil rights leader, journalist, publisher, and author who played a leading role in the Little Rock integration crisis of 1957....
for The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir
1988 – David Halberstam
David Halberstam

David Halberstam was an United States Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author known for his early work on the Vietnam War, his work on politics, history, business, media, American culture, and his later sports journalism....
for The Reckoning
1988 – Edward Sanders
Ed Sanders

Ed Sanders is an United States poet, singer, social activist, environmentalist, author and publisher. He has been called a bridge between the Beat generation and Hippie generations....
for Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century: Poems 1961-1985
1988 – Gerald Vizenor
Gerald Vizenor

Gerald Robert Vizenor is a Native Americans in the United States writer, and an Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, White Earth Reservation....
for Griever: An American Monkey King in China
1988 – Jimmy Santiago Baca
Jimmy Santiago Baca

Jimmy Santiago Baca of Apache and Chicano descent is an American poet and writer....
for Martin & Meditations on the South Valley
1988 – Kesho Y. Scott
Kesho Y. Scott

Kesho Y. Scott is an associate professor of Sociology at Grinnell College. Her interests include, black women in United States, multiculturalism, and unlearning racism....
, Cherry Muhanji, Egyirba High for Tight Spaces
1988 – Marlon K. Hom for Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown
1988 – Opal Whiteley
Opal Whiteley

Opal Whiteley was a Nature Writing and diarist whose childhood journal was first published in 1920 as The Story of Opal in serialized form in the Atlantic Monthly, then later that same year as a book with the title The Story of Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart....
for The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whiteley
1988 – Ronald Sukenick
Ronald Sukenick

Ronald Sukenick was an American writer and literary theorist.He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He studied at Cornell University, and wrote a doctorate on English literature at Brandeis University....
for Down and in: Life in the Underground
1988 – Salvatore LA Puma for The Boys of Bensonhurst
1988 – Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison , is a Nobel Prize in Literature-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic poetry themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed black characters; among the best known are her novels The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon , and Beloved , which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988...
for Beloved
1988 – Wing Tek Lum, Tek Lum Lum for Expounding the Doubtful Points
1989 – Alma Luz Villanueva for The Ultraviolet Sky
1989 – Askia M. Toure for From the Pyramids to the Projects: Poems of Genocide and Resistance!
1989 – Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde

Audre Geraldine Lorde was an United States writer, poet and activist....
for A Burst of Light
1989 – Carolyn Lau for Wode Shuofa: My Way of Speaking
1989 – Emory Elliott for Columbia Literary History of the United States
1989 – Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Galeano

Eduardo Hughes Galeano is an Uruguayan journalism, writer and novelist. His books have been translation into many languages. His works transcend orthodox genres, combining fiction, journalism, politics analysis, and history....
for Genesis
1989 – Frank Chin
Frank Chin

Frank Chin is an United States author and playwright....
for The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co.
1989 – Henry Louis Gates for The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism
1989 – Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende Llona, , is a Chilean-United States novelist. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the "magic realism" tradition, is one of the first successful women novelists in Latin America....
for Eva Luna
1989 – J. California Cooper
J. California Cooper

Joan California Cooper is an United States playwright and author."Her style is deceptively simple and direct and the vale of tears in which her characters reside is never so deep that a rich chuckle at a foolish person's foolishness cannot be heard." ?Alice Walker...
for Homemade Love
1989 – Jennifer Stone
Jennifer Stone

Jennifer Lindsay Stone is an American actress who co-stars on the Disney Channel series Wizards of Waverly Place as Harper.Biography...
for Stone's Throw
1989 – Josephine Gattuso Hendin for The Right Thing to Do
1989 – Leslie Scalapino
Leslie Scalapino

Leslie Scalapino is a American poet, experimental prose writer, playwright, essayist, and Editing, sometimes grouped in with the Language poets....
for way
1989 – Shuntaro Tanikawa
Shuntaro Tanikawa

is a Japan poet and translator. He is one of the most widely read and highly regarded of living Japanese poets, both in Japan and abroad, and a frequent subject of speculations regarding the Nobel Prize in Literature....
for Floating the River in Melancholy
1989 – Charles Fanning for The Exiles of Erin: Nineteenth-Century Irish-American Fiction
1989 – William Minoru Hohri for Repairing America: An Account of the Movement for Japanese American Redress
1990 – Adrienne Kennedy
Adrienne Kennedy

Adrienne Kennedy is an African-American playwright and was a key figure in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. She is best known for her first major play Funnyhouse of a Negro....
for People Who Led to My Plays
1990 – Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison was an United States journalist, essayist and memoirist. She is best known for her autobiographical work, particularly her account of growing up as one of Jehovah's Witnesses, and for her travel writing....
for Italian Days
1990 – Elizabeth Woody for Hand into Stone: Poems
1990 – Hualing Nieh for Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China
1990 – Itabari Njeri for Every Good-Bye Ain't Gone
1990 – James M. Freeman for Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives
1990 – John C. Walter, J. Raymond Jones
J. Raymond Jones

J. "The Fox" Raymond Jones, African American New York politician. He moved to New York City in 1918. He challenged Tammany Hall leader Carmine DeSapio twice....
for The Harlem Fox: J. Raymond Jones and Tammany, 1920-1970
1990 – John Norton for Light at the End of the Bog
1990 – Jose Emilio Gonzalez for Vivar a Hostos
1990 – Sergei Kan
Sergei Kan

Sergei A. Kan is an American anthropologist known for his research with and writings on the Tlingit people of southeast Alaska, focusing on the potlatch and on the role of the Russian Orthodox church in Tlingit communities....
for Symbolic Immortality: The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century
1990 – Lloyd A. Thompson for Romans and Blacks
1990 – Martin Bernal
Martin Bernal

Martin Gardiner Bernal is a Professor Emeritus of Government and Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University. He is a scholar of modern China political history....
for Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization
1990 – Michelle T. Clinton, Sesshu Foster
Sesshu Foster

Sesshu Foster is the author of Atomik Aztex , City Terrace Field Manual , and co-editor with Naomi Quinonez and Michelle Clinton of Invocation LA: Urban Multicultural Poetry, which won the American Book Award....
for Invocation L.A.: Urban Multicultural Poetry
1990 – Miles Davis
Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
for Miles
1990 – Paula Gunn Allen
Paula Gunn Allen

Paula Gunn Allen was a Native Americans in the United States poet, literary critic, activist, and novelist.Born Paula Marie Francis in Albuquerque, Allen grew up in Cubero, New Mexico, a Spanish-Mexican land grant village bordering the Laguna Pueblo reservation....
for Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women
1990 – Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Shirley Geok-lin Lim was born in Malacca Malaysia. She is a United States writer of poetry, fiction, and criticism. Her first collection of Poetry, Crossing The Peninsula, published in 1980, won her the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, a first both for an Asian people and for a woman....
, Mayumi Tsutakawa, Margarita Donnelly for The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology
1990 – Daniela Gioseffi
Daniela Gioseffi

Daniela Gioseffi is an American Book Award winning poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, performer, and editor of the not-for-profit literary website, PoetsUSA, as well as one of the first Italian American women writers to be widely published in the main stream of American poetry....
for Women on War (Essential Voices for the Nuclear Age)
1991 – Alejandro Murguía for Southern Front
1991 – Bell Hooks
Bell hooks

Gloria Jean Watkins , better known by the pen name bell hooks, is an United States author, Feminism, and social activist. Her writing has focused on the interconnectivity of Race , Social class, and gender and their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and domination....
for Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
1991 – Bruce Wright for Black Robes, White Justice: Why Our Legal System Doesn't Work for Blacks
1991 – Charley Trujillo for Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam
1991 – D. H. Melhem for Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions & Interviews
1991 – Deborah Keenan for Looking for Home: Women Writing About Exile
1991 – Jessica Hagedorn
Jessica Hagedorn

Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn was born in Manila, Philippines in 1949. With her background, a Ulster-Scots-French-Filipino mother and a Filipino-Spanish father with one Chinese ancestor, Hagedorn adds a unique perspective to Asian American theatre and literature....
for Dogeaters
1991 – John Edgar Wideman
John Edgar Wideman

John Edgar Wideman is an United States writer....
for Philadelphia Fire: A Novel
1991 – Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo is an United States poet, musician, and author of Native Americans in the United States Canadian ancestry. Known primarily as a poet, Harjo has also taught at the college level, played tenor saxophone with a band called Poetic Justice, edited literary journals, and written screenplays....
for In Mad Love and War
1991 – Karen Tei Yamashita
Karen Tei Yamashita

Born January 8, 1951 in Oakland, California, Karen Tei Yamashita is a Japanese American writer and Associate Professor of Literature at University of California, Santa Cruz, where she teaches creative writing and Asian American Literature....
for Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
1991 – Lucia Berlin
Lucia Berlin

Lucia Berlin ) was a major United States short story writer of the late 20th Century. She was born on November 12, 1936) and died on her 68th birthday in 2004....
for Homesick: New and Selected Stories
1991 – Mary Crow Dog
Mary Crow Dog

Mary Brave Bird, often known by her previous married name, Mary Crow Dog , is a Native Americans in the United States writer and activist....
for Lakota Woman
1991 – Meridel Le Sueur
Meridel Le Sueur

Meridel Le Sueur was an American writer associated with the proletarian movement of the 1930s and 1940s.Like her counterparts John Steinbeck, Nelson Algren and Jack Conroy, Le Sueur wrote about the struggles of the working class during the Great Depression, publishing articles in "New Masses" and "The American Mercury."...
for Harvest Song: Collected Essays and Stories
1991 – Mill Hunk Herald Collective for Overtime: Punchin' Out With the Mill Hunk Herald Magazine
1991 – Nora Marks Dauenhauer
Nora Marks Dauenhauer

Nora Marks Dauenhauer is an American poet and short-story writer and a scholar of the language and traditions of the Tlingit aboriginal nation in Alaska, of which she is a member....
, Richard Dauenhauer
Richard Dauenhauer

Richard Dauenhauer is an American poet and translator who has married into, and become an expert on, the Tlingit nation of southeastern Alaska. His wife is the Tlingit poet and scholar Nora Marks Dauenhauer....
for Haa Tuwunaagu Yis, for Healing Our Spirit: Tlingit Oratory
1991 – R. Baxter Miller for The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes
1991 – Thomas Centolella for Terra Firma
1992 – A'Lelia Perry Bundles for Madam C.J. Walker
1992 – Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman

Art Spiegelman is an United States comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel memoir, Maus....
for The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
1992 – Benjamin Alire Saenz for Calendar of Dust
1992 – Donna J. Haraway for Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
1992 – Fritjof Capra
Fritjof Capra

Fritjof Capra is an Austrian-born United States physicist.Born in Vienna, Austria, Capra earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Vienna in 1966....
for Belonging to the universe: Explorations on the frontiers of science and spirituality
1992 – Jose Antonio Burciaga
José Antonio Burciaga

Jos? Antonio "Tony" Burciaga was a Chicano artist, poet, and writer who explored issues of Chicano identity and United States society....
for Undocumented Love/Amor Indocumentado: A Personal Anthology of Poetry
1992 – Keith Gilyard
Keith Gilyard

Raymond Keith Gilyard is a prominent United States professor of English studies who studies basic writing. His book Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence recounts his education to compare theories about black people academic failure with the actual experience of a black academic....
for Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence
1992 – Lucy Thompson
Lucy Thompson

Lucy Thompson is an author known for her 1916 To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman. She wrote the book to preserve her people's stories....
for To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman
1992 – Norma Field for In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End
1992 – Peter Bacho
Peter Bacho

Peter Bacho is a writer and teacher best known for his book Cebu which won the American Book Award. The book is considered literary significant among Filipino American literature because of its explorations in themes such as neocolonialism and Filipino-American identity....
for Cebu
1992 – Peter Kalifornsky
Peter Kalifornsky

Peter Kalifornsky , was a self-taught writer and ethnographer of Kenai, Alaska, Alaska, who wrote traditional stories, poems, and language lessons in the Outer Inlet dialect of Dena'ina language, a language of the Athabaskan languages language group....
for Dena'ina Legacy: K'tl'egh'i Sukdu: The Collected Writings of Peter Kalifornsky
1992 – Raymond Andrews for Jessie and Jesus and Cousin Claire
1992 – Sandra Scofield
Sandra Scofield

Sandra Scofield is an United States novelist, essayist, editor and author of writers? guides.Sandra Scofield was born to Edith Aileen Hambleton in Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1943....
for Beyond Deserving
1992 – Sheila Hamanaka for Journey
1992 – Stephen R. Fox for The Unknown Internment: An Oral History of the Relocation of Italian Americans During World War II
1992 – Steven R. Carter for Hansberry's Drama: Commitment Amid Complexity,
1992 – Verlyn Klinkenborg
Verlyn Klinkenborg

Verlyn Klinkenborg is an United States non-fiction author. Since 1997, he has been a member of the editorial board of The New York Times. His books include The Rural Life, Making Hay, The Last Fine Time, and Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile....
for The Last Fine Time
1992 – William B. Branch, Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka, formerly known as Leroi Jones, is an American writer of poetry, drama, essays, and music criticism....
, August Wilson for Black Thunder: An Anthology of African-American Drama
1993 – Asake Bomani, Belvie Rooks for Paris Connections: African American Artists in Paris
1993 – Christopher Mogil, Peter Woodrow for We Gave Away a Fortune
1993 – Cornel West
Cornel West

Cornel Ronald West is an American philosopher, critic, pastor, and civil rights activist. West currently serves as the Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton University, where he teaches in the Center for African American Studies and in the department of Religion....
for Prophetic Thought in Postmodern Times
1993 – Denise Giardina
Denise Giardina

Denise Giardina is an award-winning novelist. Her bookStorming Heaven was a Discovery Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and received the 1987 W....
for Unquiet Earth
1993 – Diane Glancy
Diane Glancy

Diane Glancy, a Cherokee poet, author and playwright, was born in 1941 in Kansas City, Missouri. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English literature at the University of Missouri in 1964, then later continued her education at the University of Central Oklahoma, earning her Masters degree in English in 1983....
for Claiming Breath
1993 – Eugene B. Redmond for The Eye in the Ceiling
1993 – Francisco X. Alarcon for Snake Poems
1993 – Gerald Graff
Gerald Graff

Gerald Graff is a professor of English and Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He received his B.A. in English from the University of Chicago in 1959 and his Ph.D....
for Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education
1993 – Jack Beatty for The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley
1993 – Leroy V. Quintana for The History of Home
1993 – Katherine Peter for Neets'aii Gwiindaii: Living in the Chandalar Country
1993 – Nelson George
Nelson George

Nelson George is an African American author, music and culture critic, journalist, and filmmaker. He has been nominated twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award....
for Elevating the Game: Black Men and Basketball
1993 – Ninotchka Rosca
Ninotchka Rosca

Ninotchka Rosca is a Filipina feminist, author, journalist and human rights activist who is active in , a member of the MARIPOSA ALLIANCE , a multi-racial, multi-ethnic women's activist center for understanding the intersectionality of class, race and gender oppressions, toward a more comprehensive practice of women's liberation....
for Twice Blessed: A Novel
1994 – Giose Rimanelli for Benedetta in Guysterland
1994 – Eric Drooker
Eric Drooker

'Eric Drooker' is an American painter, graphic novelist, and illustrator.Drooker grew up in Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town, relatively close to the Lower East Side, Manhattan, which was then a working-class immigrant neighborhood with a tradition of left-wing political activism....
for Flood!: A Novel in Pictures
1994 – Graciela Limon for In Search of Bernabe
1994 – Gregory J. Reed for Economic Empowerment Through the Church
1994 – Janet Campbell Hale
Janet Campbell Hale

Janet Campbell Hale is a Coeur d'Alene Tribe/Koutenay writer. Her work often explores issues of Native American identity and discusses poverty, abuse, and the condition of women in society....
for Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter
1994 – Jill Nelson
Jill Nelson

Jill Nelson is a prominent African American journalist and novelist. She has written several books, including the autobiographical Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience, which won an American Book Award, and is currently Professor of Journalism at the City College of New York....
for Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience
1994 – Lawson Fusao Inada
Lawson Fusao Inada

Lawson Fusao Inada is an American poet and is currently the poet laureate of the U.S. state of Oregon....
for Legends from Camp
1994 – Nicole Blackman
Nicole Blackman

Nicole Blackman is a New York, New York-born performance artist, poet, author, vocalist, teacher, and former music industry publicist....
for Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
1994 – Paul Gilroy
Paul Gilroy

Paul Gilroy is a Professor at the London School of Economics.Born in the East End of London to Guyanese and English parents . He was educated at University College School and obtained his bachelor's degree at Sussex University in 1978....
for The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness
1994 – Ronald Takaki
Ronald Takaki

Ronald Takaki is an academic, historian, ethnographer and author. His work helps dispel stereotypes of Asian Americans such as the model minority myth....
for A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
1994 – Rose L. Glickman for Daughters of Feminists
1994 – Tino Villanueva for Scene from the Movie GIANT
1994 – Virginia L. Kroll for Wood-Hoopoe Willie
1995 – Abraham Rodriguez for Spidertown: A Novel
1995 – Herb Boyd, Robert L. Allen
Robert L. Allen

Robert Lee Allen is an activist, writer, and Adjunct Professor of African-American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley....
for Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America--An Anthology
1995 – Denise Chavez
Denise Chavez

Denise Elia Chavez is an United States author, playwright, and stage director. She was born to an Hispanos family in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and graduated from Madonna High School in Mesilla, New Mexico....
for Face of an Angel
1995 – John Egerton for Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South
1995 – John Ross
John Ross (activist)

John Ross is an American author, poet, free-lance journalist, and activist currently residing in Mexico City, Mexico. Since 1993, when Ross first broke the story in the Anderson Valley Advertiser, he has regularly covered the Zapatista Army of National Liberation rebellion in Chiapas with articles appearing in both English and Spanish l...
for Rebellion from the Roots: Indian Uprising in Chiapas
1995 – Thomas Avena for Life Sentences: Writers, Artists, and AIDS
1995 – Linda Raymond for Rocking the Babies: A Novel
1995 – Li-Young Lee
Li-Young Lee

Li-Young Lee is an United States poet. He was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, to China parents.His great-grandfather was Yuan Shikai, China's first Republican President, who attempted to make himself emperor....
for The Winged Seed: A Remembrance
1995 – Marianna De Marco Torgovnick for Crossing Ocean Parkway
1995 – Marnie Mueller for Green Fires: Assault on Eden: A Novel of the Ecuadorian Rainforest
1995 – Peter Quinn
Peter Quinn

Peter Quinn may refer to:*Peter Quinn *Peter Quinn *Peter Quinn *Peter A. Quinn , U.S. Congressman*Peter H. Quinn , U.S. soldier*Peter J. Quinn, Information technology worker...
for Banished Children of Eve, A Novel of Civil War New York
1995 – Sandra Martz for I Am Becoming the Woman I've Wanted
1995 – Gordon Henry Jr. for The Light People
1995 – Tricia Rose for Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
1996 – Agate Nesaule for A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile
1996 – Arthur Sze for Archipelago
1996 – Chang-Rae Lee
Chang-Rae Lee

Chang-Rae Lee is a first-generation Korean American novelist.Lee was born in Korea in 1965. He emigrated to the United States with his family when he was 3 years old....
for Native Speaker
1996 – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an Indian-American author, poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the nationally-ranked University of Houston Creative Writing Program....
for Arranged Marriage
1996 – E.J. Miller Laino for Girl Hurt
1996 – Glenn C. Loury for One by One from the Inside Out: Race and Responsibility in America
1996 – James W. Loewen for Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
1996 – Joe Sacco
Joe Sacco

Joe Sacco is a Malta-American comics artist and journalist. He achieved international fame through the 1996 American Book Award-winning Palestine , and his graphic novel on the Bosnian War, Safe Area Gora?de....
, Edward Said
Edward Said

Edward Wadie Sa?d Royal Society of Literature was a Palestinian American Literary theory, cultural critic, and an outspoken advocate for Palestinian rights....
for Palestine
1996 – Kimiko Hahn
Kimiko Hahn

Kimiko Hahn is an United States poet and instructor of poetry....
for Unbearable Heart, The
1996 – Maria Espinosa for Longing
1996 – Robert Viscusi for Astoria
1996 – Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie

Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. is an award-winning and prolific author and occasional comedian. Much of his writing draws on his experiences as a modern Native Americans in the United States....
for Reservation Blues
1996 – Ron Sakolsky
Ron Sakolsky

Ron Sakolsky is a scholar covering the intersection of music, revolution and radio. As of 2005, Sakolsky is Emeritus Professor of Public Administration at the University of Illinois at Springfield, previously known as Sangamon State University....
, Fred Weihan Ho for Sounding Off!: Music as Resistance / Rebellion / Revolution
1996 – Stephanie Cowell for The Physician of London: The Second Part of the Seventeenth-Century Trilogy of Nicholas Cooke
1996 – William H. Gass
William H. Gass

William Howard Gass is an United States novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and former philosophy professor....
for The Tunnel
1997 – Alurista
Alurista

Alurista is the nom de plume of Alberto Baltazar Urista Heredia , is a Chicano poet and Activism....
for Et Tu ... Raza
1997 – Derrick Bell
Derrick Bell

Derrick A. Bell, Jr. is a professor#Other designations of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law for the past 15 years and a major figure within the legal studies discipline of Critical Race Theory....
for Gospel Choirs: Psalms Of Survival In An Alien Land Called Home
1997 – Dorothy Barresi
Dorothy Barresi

Dorothy Barresi is an American poet.Born in Buffalo, New York and raised in Akron, Ohio, Barresi won the Barnard Women Poets Prize for her first book, All of the Above....
for The Post-Rapture Diner
1997 – Guillermo Gomez-Pena
Guillermo Gómez-Peña

Guillermo G?mez-Pe?a was born in Mexico City and moved to the US in 1978, where he established himself as a performance artist, writer, activist, and educator....
for The New World Border: Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century
1997 – Louis Owens
Louis Owens

Louis Owens was a novelist and scholar of Choctaw, Cherokee and Irish descent. He is known for a series of Native-themed mystery novels and for his contributions to the then-fledgling field of Native American Studies....
for Nightland
1997 – Martin Espada
Martín Espada

Mart?n Espada is a poet and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts, where he teaches creative writing and Latino poetry....
for Imagine the Angels of Bread: Poems
1997 – Montserrat Fontes for Dreams of the Centaur: A Novel
1997 – Noel Ignatiev
Noel Ignatiev

Noel Ignatiev is an American history professor at the Massachusetts College of Art best known for his call to "abolish" the white race. Ignatiev is the co-founder and co-editor of the journal Race Traitor and the New Abolitionist Society....
for Race Traitor
1997 – Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Shirley Geok-lin Lim was born in Malacca Malaysia. She is a United States writer of poetry, fiction, and criticism. Her first collection of Poetry, Crossing The Peninsula, published in 1980, won her the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, a first both for an Asian people and for a woman....
for Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands
1997 – Sunaina Maira for Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America
1997 – Thulani Davis for Maker of Saints
1997 – Tom De Haven
Tom De Haven

Tom De Haven is an United States author, editor, journalist and film and television writer perhaps best known for his novels, essays and Article literary and film noir, the Studio system and American comic strip novels, more specifically, the Derby Dugan trilogy of novels, as well as his eighth novel, It's Superman....
for Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies: A Novel
1997 – William M. Banks for Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life
1997 – Brenda Knight for Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution
1998 – Allison Adelle Hedge Coke for Dog Road Woman
1998 – Angela Y. Davis for Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
1998 – Brenda Marie Osbey for All Saints: New and Selected Poems
1998 – Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo is an United Statesmerican author whose work paints a detailed portrait of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries....
for Underworld
1998 – Jim Barnes
Jim Barnes (writer)

Jim Weaver McKown Barnes is a Native Americans in the United States author born near Summerfield, Oklahoma and is of Choctaw and Welsh heritage....
for On Native Ground: Memoirs and Impressions
1998 – John A. Williams for Safari West: Poems
1998 – Nancy Rawles for Love Like Gumbo
1998 – Nora Okja Keller for Comfort Woman
1998 – Sandra Benitez for Bitter Grounds: A Novel
1998 – Scott DeVeaux for The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History
1998 – Thomas Lynch
Thomas Lynch (poet)

Thomas Lynch is an United States poet, essayist, and Funeral director....
for The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
1999 – Alice McDermott
Alice McDermott

Alice McDermott is Johns Hopkins University's Richard A Macksey Professor of the Humanities. Born in Brooklyn, New York, McDermott attended St....
for Charming Billy
1999 – Anna Linzer for Ghost Dancing
1999 – Brian Ward for Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations
1999 – Chiori Santiago for Home to Medicine Mountain
1999 – E. Donald Two-Rivers
E. Donald Two-Rivers

E. Donald "Ed" Two-Rivers was Anishinaabe . He was a noted poet, playwright and Spoken word performer.Brought up first on the reservation and then in the urban Native community in Chicago, Two-Rivers has been an activist for Native rights since the 1970s, for which he was awarded the Iron Eyes Cody Award for Peace in 1992....
for Survivor's Medicine: Short Stories
1999 – Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat

Edwidge Danticat is a Haitian American author....
for The Farming of Bones
1999 – Judith Roche
Judith Roche

Judith Roche is a poet and the author of three collections of poetry. They are Myrrh/My Life as a Screamer, Ghost and recently, Wisdom of the Body, which won a 2007 American Book Award....
, Meg McHutchison for First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim
1999 – Gioia Timpanelli for Sometimes the Soul: Two Novellas of Sicily
1999 – Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor

Gloria Naylor is an African American novelist. Her novel The Women of Brewster Place was adapted into a The Women of Brewster Place of the same name by Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions....
for The Men of Brewster Place: A Novel
1999 – James D. Houston for The Last Paradise
1999 – Jerry Lipka, Gerald V. Mohatt, Ciulistet Group for Transforming the Culture of Schools: Yup¡k Eskimo Examples
1999 – Trey Ellis
Trey Ellis

Trey Ellis is an United States novelist, screenwriter and essayist....
for Right Here, Right Now
1999 – Josip Novakovich
Josip Novakovich

Josip Novakovich is a Croats-American writer. His grandparents had immigrated from the Croatia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, to Cleveland, Ohio, and, after the First World War, his grandfather returned to what had become Yugoslavia....
for Salvation and Other Disasters
1999 – Lauro Flores for The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature
1999 – Luis Alberto Urrea
Luis Alberto Urrea

Luis Alberto Urrea is a Latin American writer known as one of the most prominent Latino writers. Urrea is the recipient of the Lannon Literary Award, an American Book Award, and a Colorado Book Award, and has been inducted into the Latino Literary Hall of Fame....
for Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life
1999 – Nelson George
Nelson George

Nelson George is an African American author, music and culture critic, journalist, and filmmaker. He has been nominated twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award....
for Hip Hop America: Hip Hop and the Molding of Black Generation X
1999 – Speer Morgan for The Freshour Cylinders
1999 – Gary Gach
Gary Gach

Gary G. Gach is a Californian author, editor, teacher, and occasional actor....
for What Book!?: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop
2000 – Allan J. Ryan for The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art
2000 – Andrés Montoya for The Ice Wosrkers Sings and Other Poem
2000 – Camille Peri, Kate Moses for Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood
2000 – David A. J. Richards for Italian American: The Racializing of an Ethnic Identity
2000 – David Toop
David Toop

David Toop is an English musician and author, and as of 2001 was visiting Research Fellow in the Media School at London College of Communication....
for Exotica
2000 – Elva Trevino Hart for Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child
2000 – Emil Guillermo
Emil Guillermo

Emil Guillermo is a print and broadcast journalist, commentator and humorist. He writes a column, "Emil Amok," for AsianWeek- the most widely read and largest circulating Asian American newsweekly in the U.S....
for Amok: Essays from an Asian American Perspective; With an Introduction by Ishmael Reed
2000 – Frank Chin
Frank Chin

Frank Chin is an United States author and playwright....
for The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co.
2000 – Helen Thomas
Helen Thomas

File:Helen Thomas - USNWR.jpgHelen Thomas is an American news service reporter, a Hearst Corporation columnist, and member of the White House Press Corps....
for Front Row at the White House : My Life and Times
2000 – Janisse Ray
Janisse Ray

Janisse Ray is an United States writer, naturalist, and environmental activist.She attended North Georgia College, 1980-82; Florida State University, B.A., 1984; and the University of Montana, M.F.A., 1997....
for Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
2000 – John Russell Rickford, Russell John Rickford for Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English
2000 – Leroy TeCube for Year in Nam: A Native American Soldier's Story
2000 – Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Lois-Ann Yamanaka is a Japanese-American poet and novelist from Hawaii. Many of her critically acclaimed literary works are written in Hawaiian Pidgin, and some of her writing has dealt with controversial ethnic issues....
for Heads By Harry
2000 – Michael Lally
Michael Lally

Michael Lally , author and historian.A native of Fairhill in the Claddagh, Lally has been a seminarian, shopkeeper, publican, and a voluntary worker with the Brothers of Charity....
for It's Not Nostalgia: Poetry & Prose
2000 – Michael Patrick MacDonald
Michael Patrick MacDonald

Michael Patrick MacDonald is an Irish-American activist against crime and violence and author of his memoir, All Souls: A Family Story From Southie....
for All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
2000 – Rahna Reiko Rizzuto for Why She Left Us: A Novel
2000 – Robert Creeley
Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's....
for The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975-2005
2001 – Amanda J. Cobb for Listening to Our Grandmothers' Stories: The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852-1949
2001 – Andrea Dworkin
Andrea Dworkin

Andrea Rita Dworkin was an American Radical feminism and writer best known for her criticism of pornography, which she believed to be linked with rape and other forms of violence against women....
for Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation
2001 – Carolyne Wright for Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire
2001 – Chalmers Johnson
Chalmers Johnson

Chalmers Ashby Johnson is an American author and professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego. He is also president and co-founder of the Japan Policy Research Institute, an organization promoting public education about Japan and Asia....
for Blowback, Second Edition: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
2001 – Cheri Register
Cheri Register

Cheri Register is an United States of America author and teacher. She has written seven books and co-authored three, the most famous of which, Packinghouse Daughter, is a memoir based on her working-class upbringing in her home town of Albert Lea, Minnesota, in Minnesota....
for Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir
2001 – Chris Ware
Chris Ware

Chris Ware is an American comic book artist and cartoonist, best-known for a series of comics called the Acme Novelty Library, and a graphic novel, Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Nebraska, he resides in Oak Park, Illinois, Illinois as of 2007....
for Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
2001 – Diana Garcia for When Living Was a Labor Camp
2001 – Elizabeth Nunez
Elizabeth Nunez

Elizabeth Nunez is a United States novelist, distinguished professor of English studies, and Provost of Medgar Evers College?CUNY, in Brooklyn, New York....
for Bruised Hibiscus
2001 – Janet McAdams
Janet McAdams

Janet McAdams is an Alabama Creek/Scottish/Irish poet and the author of The Island of Lost Luggage which received an American Book Award in 2001....
for Island of Lost Luggage
2001 – Philip Whalen
Philip Whalen

Philip Whalen was an American poet, Zen Buddhist, and a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance and the Beat generation....
for Overtime: Selected Poems
2001 – Russell C. Leong for Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories
2001 – Sandra M. Gilbert for Kissing the Bread: New and Selected Poems, 1969-1999
2001 – Ted Joans
Ted Joans

Theodore "Ted" Joans was an United States trumpeter, Jazz poetry and Painting.Born on a riverboat in Cairo, Illinois, Joans earned a degree in fine arts from Indiana University Bloomington....
for Teducation
2001 – Tillie Olsen
Tillie Olsen

Tillie Lerner Olsen was an United States writer, associated with the political turmoil of 1930s and the first generation of American feminism....
for Silences
2001 – William S. Penn
William S. Penn

William S. Penn is a mixed race Nez Pierce author and English professor at Michigan State. His work explores the issues his father faced coming to terms with his Indian heritage....
for Killing Time With Strangers
2002 – Aaron Abeyta
Aaron Abeyta

Aaron Abeyta, known as El Hefe or simply Hefe, from el Jefe , is the lead guitarist and trumpet player of the California punk band NOFX....
for Colcha
2002 – Al Young
Al Young

Al Young is an United States poet, novelist, essayist and screenwriter. On May 15, 2005 he was named Poet Laureate of California by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger....
for The Sound of Dreams Remembered: Poems, 1990-2000
2002 – Alex Kuo for Lipstick and Other Stories
2002 – Dana Gioia
Dana Gioia

Michael Dana Gioia is an American poet and critic who retired early from his career as a corporate executive at General Foods to write full time....
for Interrogations at Noon
2002 – Donald Phelps for Reading the Funnies : Looking at Great Cartoonists Throughout the First Half of the 20th Century
2002 – Gloria Frym
Gloria Frym

Gloria Frym is an American poet, fiction writer, and essayist....
for Homeless at Home
2002 – Jack Hirschman
Jack Hirschman

Jack Hirschman is an United States poet and social activist who has written more than 50 volumes of poetry and essays....
for Front Lines
2002 – Jessel Miller for Angels in the Vineyards
2002 – LeAnne Howe
LeAnne Howe

LeAnne Howe is an author and scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. An enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Howe's work has been published in a variety of journals and anthologies....
for Shell Shaker
2002 – Lerone Bennett for Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream
2002 – Michael N. Nagler for Is There No Other Way? The Search for a Nonviolent Future
2002 – Rilla Askew
Rilla Askew

Rilla Askew is an United States novelist and short story writer born in the Sans Bois Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma, where her family has lived for five generations....
for Fire in Beulah
2002 – Susanne Antonetta
Susanne Antonetta

Susanne Antonetta , is an United States poet and author. Susanne Antonetta is the pen name for Suzanne Paola, who is perhaps best known as the author of Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir ....
for Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir
2002 – Tananarive Due
Tananarive Due

Tananarive Due is an United States author.Due is originally from Florida. Her mother is civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due. Due earned a B.S....
for The Living Blood
2003 – Alejandro Murguía for This War Called Love
2003 – Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg is a former American military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a Classified information The Pentagon study of government decision-making about the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers....
for Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
2003 – Debra Magpie Earling for Perma Red
2003 – Eric Porter
Eric Porter

Eric Richard Porter was a distinguished English actor who appeared on stage as well as in cinema and television....
for What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists
2003 – Igor Krupnik for Akuzilleput Igaqullghet Our Words Put to Paper Sourcebook in St. Lawrence Island Yupik Heritage and History
2003 – Jack Newfield
Jack Newfield

Jack Newfield was a muckraking journalist, employed by the New York Post. A native of Brooklyn, New York, he died on December 20, 2004, from kidney cancer and lung cancer....
for The Full Rudy: The Man, the Myth, the Mania
2003 – Jewell Parker Rhodes
Jewell Parker Rhodes

Jewell Parker Rhodes is an United States novelist.Rhodes is professor of Creative Writing and American Literature and former Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Arizona State University....
for Douglass' Women : A Novel
2003 – Joseph Papaleo for Italian Stories
2003 – Kevin Baker
Kevin Baker

Kevin Baker is an United States novelist and journalist. He was born in Englewood, New Jersey, New Jersey and grew up in New Jersey and Rockport, Massachusetts, Massachusetts....
for Paradise Alley
2003 – Rachel Simon
Rachel Simon

Rachel Simon is an American writer of both fiction and non-fiction. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1981, and published her first book, a collection of short stories, in 1990....
for Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey
2003 – Rick Heide for Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California
2003 – Velma Wallis
Velma Wallis

Velma Wallis is an Athabascan Indian and bestselling U.S. novelist. Her work has been translated into 17 languages.She was born and raised in a remote Alaskan village near Fort Yukon, approximately 200km north-east of Fairbanks, Alaska....
for Raising Ourselves: A Gwich'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River
2004 – A. Robert Lee for Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions
2004 – Charisse Jones, Kumea Shorter-Gooden for Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America
2004 – David Cole
David D. Cole

David D. Cole is an United States law professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. He has published in various legal fields including civil rights, criminal justice, constitutional law and law and literature....
for Enemy Aliens: Double Standards And Constitutional Freedoms In The War On Terrorism
2004 – Diana Abu-Jaber
Diana Abu-Jaber

Diana Abu-Jaber is an author and a teacher at Portland State University. She was born in Syracuse, New York. Her father was Jordanian and her mother was American, descended from Ireland and Germany roots....
for Crescent: A Novel
2004 – Diane Sher Lutovich for What I Stole
2004 – Kristin Hunter Lattany for Breaking Away
2004 – Michael Walsh
Michael Walsh (author)

Michael A. Walsh is a music critic, author and screenwriter. After graduating from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, New York in 1971, he became a reporter for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle in February 1972, where he won the New York State Publishers Association first prize for reporting for a series of articles abo...
for And All the Saints
2004 – Renato Rosaldo for Prayer to Spider Woman / Rezo a la Mujer Araa
2004 – Ruth L. Ozeki for All Over Creation
2004 – Scott Saul for Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties
2005 – Alisha S. Drabek for The Red Cedar of Afognak, A Driftwood Journey
2005 – Bernard W. Bell for The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots And Modern Literary Branches
2005 – Don Lee
Don Lee (author)

Don Lee is an United States novelist who spent his childhood in Tokyo and Seoul as the son of a State Department officer. He received his Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from University of California, Los Angeles and his Master of Fine Arts in Creative writing from Emerson College....
for Country of Origin: A Novel
2005 – Don West
Don West (educator)

Don West was an United States writer, poet, educator, trade union organizer, American Civil Rights Movement and a co-founder of the Highlander Folk School....
, Jeff Biggers
Jeff Biggers

Jeff Biggers is an American writer, editor, journalist, and critic. He is the author of two books: The United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture and Enlightenment to America and In the Sierra Madre....
, George Brosi for No Lonesome Road: Selected Prose and Poems
2005 – Hiroshi Kashiwagi
Hiroshi Kashiwagi

Hiroshi Kashiwagi is a Nisei poet, playwright and actor. For his writing and performance work on stage he is considered an early pioneer of Asian American theatre....
for Swimming in the American: A Memoir And Selected Writings
2005 – Jeff Chang
Jeff Chang (journalist)

Jeff Chang is an United States journalist and music critic on hip hop music and culture. His 2005 book, Can't Stop Won't Stop, which chronicles the early hip hop scene, won an American Book Award in 2005....
, D.J. Kool Herc for Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
2005 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy
2005 – Julie Chibbaro for Redemption
2005 – Lamont B. Steptoe for A Long Movie of Shadows
2005 – Ralph M. Flores for The Horse in the Kitchen: Stories of a Mexican-American Family
2005 – Richard A. Clarke
Richard A. Clarke

Richard Alan Clarke was a U.S. government employee for 30 years, 1973–2003. He worked for the United States Department of State during the presidency of Ronald Reagan....
for Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror
2005 – Cecelie Berry for Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood
2006 – Carlton T. Spiller for Scalding Heart
2006 – Darryl Dickson-Carr for The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction
2006 – David P. Diaz for The White Tortilla: Reflections of a Second -Generation Mexican - American
2006 – Doris Seale for A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children
2006 – Jay Wright
Jay Wright (poet)

Jay Wright is an African-American poet, playwright and essayist. Born in New Mexico, he currently lives in Bradford, Vermont. Although his work is not as widely known as other American poets of his generation, it has received considerable critical acclaim....
for Transfigurations: Collected Poems
2006 – Josh Kun for Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America
2006 – Kevin J. Mullen for The Toughest Gang in Town: Police Stories from Old San Francisco
2006 – Mackenzie Bezos for The Testing of Luther Albright: A Novel
2006 – Matt Briggs
Matt Briggs

Matt Briggs is an United States writer of novels and short stories....
for Shoot the Buffalo
2006 – Matthew Shenoda for Somewhere Else
2006 – P. Lewis for Nate
2006 – Peter Metcalfe for Gumboot Determination: The Story of the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium
2006 – Thomas Ferraro for Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America
2006 – Tim Z. Hernandez for Skin Tax
2007 – Daniel Cassidy for How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads
2007 – Ernestine Hayes for Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir
2007 – Gary Panter
Gary Panter

Gary Panter is an illustrator, painter, designer and part-time musician. Panter is a luminary of the post-underground, new wave comics movement that began with the end of Arcade: The Comics Revue and the initiation of RAW ....
for Jimbo's Inferno
2007 – Jeffrey F. L. Partridge for Beyond Literary Chinatown
2007 – Judith Roche
Judith Roche

Judith Roche is a poet and the author of three collections of poetry. They are Myrrh/My Life as a Screamer, Ghost and recently, Wisdom of the Body, which won a 2007 American Book Award....
for Wisdom of the Body
2007 – Kali Vanbaale for The Space Between
2007 – Michael Eric Dyson for Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
2007 – Patricia Klindienst for The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic America
2007 – Reyna Grande
Reyna Grande

Reyna Grande is a Mexican-American author best known for her novel Across a Hundred Mountains. Though Mountains is a work of fiction, Grande drew heavily on her experiences growing up in Mexico and her illegal immigration to the United States....
for Across a Hundred Mountains: A Novel
2007 – Rigoberto Gonzalez
Rigoberto González

Rigoberto Gonz?lez is an American writer and critic. He is an award-winning author of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and bilingual children's books, and self-identifies in his writing as a gay Chicano....
for Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa

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